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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Lana Reverse on November 30, 2016, 02:10:00 pm

Title: Entire Internet to be backed up in Canada for fear of Trump
Post by: Lana Reverse on November 30, 2016, 02:10:00 pm

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fearing-trump-intrusion-entire-internet-will-be-archived-canada-tackle-censorship-1594116 (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fearing-trump-intrusion-entire-internet-will-be-archived-canada-tackle-censorship-1594116)

I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, this seems like the kind of thing you'd like to have, even if you don't need it. On the other, I have a niggling feeling somebody's making big money from this.

Title: Re: Entire Internet to be backed up in Canada for fear of Trump
Post by: tempus on December 01, 2016, 07:04:02 pm

Quote from: Lana Reverse on November 30, 2016, 02:10:00 pm

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fearing-trump-intrusion-entire-internet-will-be-archived-canada-tackle-censorship-1594116 (http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/fearing-trump-intrusion-entire-internet-will-be-archived-canada-tackle-censorship-1594116)

I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, this seems like the kind of thing you'd like to have, even if you don't need it. On the other, I have a niggling feeling somebody's making big money from this.

Most likely.  And I question how safe they're going to be in Canada, since at least theoretically they've got protection in the US that they don't have elsewhere.

But at the same time, I think that it's probably smart to have a secure backup SOMEWHERE, preferably in secret.  I wonder if Elon Musk or someone could be convinced to fund a global information backup somewhere?